Juan Lopez
Greer,SC
Summary
Passionate, selfless and charismatic surgical technologist looking to enhance their career with a surgical team. Experienced with surgical protocols and cardiovascular operating room procedures. Utilizes meticulous attention to detail and effective communication to support surgical teams. Knowledge of maintaining sterile environments and assisting in complex surgeries to ensure patient safety and successful outcomes.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Certified Surgical Technologist (CVOR)
Prisma Health
09.2024 - 07.2025
- Function as the scrub person and assists as trained during different operative and invasive vascular surgery procedures by assembling supplies and equipment required for the procedure
- Experience in AV Graft, AV Fistula, variations of bypasses (Examples: Fem-Pop, Fem-Fem, Fem-Tib, Ax-Fem), AKA, BKA, TMA, Variations of Thrombectomy, TCAR, EVAR, Carotid Endarterectomy, Femoral Endarterectomy, Ablation, Temporal Artery Biopsy and Ligation
- Work weekend call and weekday/holiday call when needed
- Prepare the operating room by opening sterile supplies, setting up the backtable, assisting with the placement of sterile drapes and performing surgical counts with the circulating RN according to standards
- Maintaining an organized sterile field and ensuring the sterility of the field by taking corrective action as needed throughout the procedure
- Provide instruments and supplies to the surgical team during the procedure while maintaining aseptic technique
- Retrieves, collect and label specimens appropriately and correctly
- Report any implanted devices, catheters, drains and packaging to the circulator
- Assist with pre and post-procedure cleaning of the room and instruments
- Availability to work weekend call and within the time frames required by department
- Assist with the placement of sterile drapes
- Handle drugs and solutions under direction of the RN
- Updating surgeon’s preference cards
- Participate in ongoing educational and competency verification opportunities
- Provide technical assistance with patient positioning
Server
California Dreaming
03.2024 - 07.2024
- Greet guests, answer questions and anticipate their needs
- Take order, communicate with kitchen staff, and deliver food and drinks to customers
- Set and sanitize tables, keeping sections clean and neat.
- Ability to provide excellent customer service to all diners
- Ability to multitask and to cater to multiple groups at one time
Dealership Administrator
USADOS Auto Service and Towing
01.2016 - 03.2024
- Establish strong relationships with current and past customers to keep a steady flow of business
- Use bilingual skills to interact with both English and Spanish speaking customers and translate their requests to mechanic or dealership owners
- Implementing effective modes of persuasion for the purpose of turning customers into buyers
- Confidence in face to face approaching, negotiating and closing business with customers
- Demonstrating empathy for the customers car troubles in order to establish trust in the recommended solution
- Understanding customers wants and needs to get them exactly what they are looking for
- Maintaining a strong work ethic so that the daily objectives are completed
- Giving customers complete honesty when presenting them with the inventory available at the dealership
- Efficiently and organically build rapport with new, current and old customers on a daily basis
- Oversee the marketing of the dealership, inventory and services via Facebook
General Manager
Olympian Restaurant
06.2023 - 11.2023
- Demonstrating strong leadership and problem solving skills on a daily basis to allow a productive workday flow
- Coordinate the operations of the restaurant ensuring that the kitchen, bar and waiting staff are working as a team
- Maintain high standards of quality control, hygiene and health and safety
- Having a hunter mentality to seek and find partnerships with other local business owners within the town to expand business opportunities
- Use fluency in Spanish to translate customer requests to staff
- Act as a mediator for different staff members with the purpose of mitigating the differences of opinions
- The ability to handle weekly complicated or hostile situations with diplomacy
- Maintaining an awareness of customers specific requests and delivering them to their full satisfaction
- Being able to show a superb ability to work in a fast paced and overstimulated environment
- An inner drive to motivate staff to perform excellent customer service no matter what the situation
- Ensuring customer satisfaction day in and day out
- Use critical thinking skills to optimize and expedite the customers wait time
- Overseeing the stock available in the restaurant and completing the orders for what is needed
- Ability to handle complicated or hostile situations with diplomacy
- Responsible for upholding the restaurant protocols on a daily basis
Patients Services Representative
Prisma Health Center for Success in Aging
02.2022 - 10.2022
- Responsible for complete and accurate patient registration, pre-certification, charge capture and accurately coding diagnoses given by physicians
- Accurately posting all payments and balancing with the computer reports at the end of the day
- Greet patients and visitors in a prompt, courteous, and helpful manner
- Checks in patients, verify and update necessary insurance information in the patient accounting system
- Work with medical assistants and other staff to route patient charts to proper location
- Responsible for gathering, accurately coding and posting outpatient charges
- Help processing mail return statements and outgoing statements
- Daily application of knowledge for advanced hospital computer programs
- Serve as a translator for the office manager, patients and clinicians when prompted
- Effectively manage administrative responsibilities, including responsibly managing and reporting all monetary payments
- Pick up lab reports, dictations, X-rays, and correspondence
- Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills to supervise patient intake procedures
- Diligently updating the patient insurance information whenever it was necessary so that the patient could receive services
- Supervise office waiting area and direct patient movement
- Liaison between the patient and the medical support staff
Bilingual Property Consultant
Anyone Home Inc.
05.2019 - 08.2019
- Answer inbound calls from prospective residents to assist with inquiries regarding a community or home in order to schedule an onsite tour of the property
- Communicate clearly to residents, both verbally and in writing, using proper grammar and spelling
- Supporting current residents over the phone regarding maintenance concerns and/or scheduling maintenance technician appointments
- Overview pricing and lease terms with the prospects in order to find the best home that will fit their wants and needs
- Patiently answer multifaceted questions that the future prospects may have
- Assist customers to make sound property-purchasing decisions
- Reviewing and maintaining an extensive database of all properties for sale
- Set appointments for future residents to come visit the house with another agent or through a lock box system
Sales Associate
Vector Marketing
10.2017 - 12.2017
- Setting appointments with potential customers via cold calls through personal contacts and referrals
- The ability to initially engage someone’s interest in the product then proceed with a presentation of the services and finally close with a sale of the product
- Market the services that I provide via social media as well as word of mouth
- Having a hunter mentality to seek customers and get references
- Use excellent persuasion skills to make a customer want to buy the products
- Attending advanced training sessions and conferences
Banquet Server
Bagatelle Catering Services
06.2015 - 05.2017
- Introduce event staff to catering company and translate any rules or requests
- Establishing rapport with the event staff so that job duties are understood by both pirates
- Observing and enforcing food safety regulations throughout the duration of the event time
- The ability to stand up for long periods of time
- Assist with event planning a coordination as needed
- Greeting guests and taking their orders
- Clear tables and clean banquet halls after events
- Anticipating and exceeding expectations Transport equipment
Lifeguard
SweetWater Pools
06.2015 - 08.2016
- Enforce pool rules and policies
- Supervising swimmers
- First aid including CPR
- Participating in certification classes
- Check and administer the chemicals in the pool
- Pool maintenance
- Readiness to perform emergency care
- Water rescue
- Spotting hazards and preventing accidents
Education
Bachelor of Science - Health Science
North Greenville University
Tigerville, South Carolina05.2022
Associate of Applied Science - Surgical Technology
Virginia College
Greenville, South Carolina12.2018
Associate of Science - undefined
Spartanburg Methodist College
Saxon, South Carolina05.2017
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Wyatt Institute of Real Estate
Greenville, South Carolina05.2023
Skills
- Bilingual
- Coachable
- Communication
- Team Player
- Organized
- Structure Oriented
- Emotional Intelligence
- Leadership
Certification
NBSTSA Certification (#100232823)
BLS Certification
Timeline
Certified Surgical Technologist (CVOR)
Prisma Health
09.2024 - 07.2025
Server
California Dreaming
03.2024 - 07.2024
General Manager
Olympian Restaurant
06.2023 - 11.2023
Patients Services Representative
Prisma Health Center for Success in Aging
02.2022 - 10.2022
Bilingual Property Consultant
Anyone Home Inc.
05.2019 - 08.2019
Sales Associate
Vector Marketing
10.2017 - 12.2017
Dealership Administrator
USADOS Auto Service and Towing
01.2016 - 03.2024
Banquet Server
Bagatelle Catering Services
06.2015 - 05.2017
Lifeguard
SweetWater Pools
06.2015 - 08.2016
Bachelor of Science - Health Science
North Greenville University
Associate of Applied Science - Surgical Technology
Virginia College
Associate of Science - undefined
Spartanburg Methodist College
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Wyatt Institute of Real Estate